Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
David Robert Grimes (@drg1985) is a scientist and author of Good Thinking (The Irrational Ape in Europe and UK). David and Leslie talk about the centrality of critical thinking to human flourishing, and the many, many ways intuitive heuristics can mislead us. And yet, with training and diligence, we can overcome our biases, motivated reasoning,…
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Consider the value of inquiry. Merriam-Webster defines inquiry as: A request for information A systematic investigation of a matter of public interest Examination into facts or principles In a world that appears to be increasingly divided, inquiry is a tool that can be used to improve understanding. Inquiry can help us to disagree without being…
Protecting Blasphemers is an annual panel discussion highlighting the most recent blasphemy issues of the year. We aim to discover the areas where the global secular community can work together to build support mechanisms to protect blasphemers running from persecution. Each year we also pay our respects to a fellow atheist activist we lost. This…
World population has hit 9 billion. What does this mean for Canadians? And what does it mean for humanity?
We are in a new age where hate propaganda has found the ultimate amplification — the internet. Fear and hate are the new tools used by manipulators to further their interests.